Life & Death Matters

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

National Grief and Bereavement Day is a time to reflect on the profound impact of loss and the vital role of community support during times of grief. This […] The post Marking National Grief and Bereavement Day: Palliative Care Training and Resources to Support Compassionate Community Caregiving appeared first on Life and Death Matters.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2025

In this episode of Hospice News Elevate, Senior Reporter Holly Vossel speaks with Chloe Bishop, a bereavement and social work supervisor at Frederick Health Hospice (FHH). The post Elevate Podcast: Chloe Bishop, Bereavement & Social Work Supervisor, Frederick Health Hospice appeared first on Hospice News.

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JULY 16, 2024

Fraudulent activity in the hospice space may be leaving some families without sufficient bereavement support. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires hospices to offer bereavement care for a minimum of 13 months following a patient’s death.

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2024

Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake has been pursuing innovation in its bereavement and caregiver support programs. In Anne Arundel County, the crisis response agency reaches out to us when there’s a bereavement need, and they refer those clients to us. Out-of-pocket payments for those services are on a sliding scale.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 11, 2022

Proposed federal legislation could advance the development of an evidence-based definition of “high-quality” bereavement care. Considered “report language,” the bereavement portion of the bill is a recommendation to federal agencies to pursue its stated objectives. The legislation “encourages” the U.S.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Anatomy of Hospice Grief Camps for Children Many hospices offer summer grief camps for bereaved children and adolescents, which come with a host of operational and logistical considerations. Hospice leaders have indicated that training bereavement staff and volunteers is crucial to assess and address a childs emotional reactions.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2024

After five years of planning, the post-acute services provider AccentCare recently re-organized its bereavement care services, which are now coordinated from a national center. Among AccentCare’s services, bereavement care is its most widely used, about 65,000 people per day.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

Some hospices have found peer support to be a crucial component of their pediatric bereavement programs amid rising demand for these services. Research indicates that the number of bereaved children nationwide is growing. The organization additionally researches child bereavement services and needs.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 10, 2025

More professionals from a wider range of interfaith groups are entering the field, according to Shana Sullivan, bereavement coordinator of Texas-based Heart to Heart Hospice. We need chaplains trained in hospice and palliative care philosophy who know tons about medical ethics, goals of care and complex bereavement.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

Hospices often lack the financial and staffing resources needed to fully support bereaved families. As with nursing, the industry-wide labor shortage has impacted bereavement care, which is an underfunded service, according to Dr. Dawn Gross, palliative care physician at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Connecticut-based Regional Hospice recently opened a new grief support center to extend its bereavement services further across the state’s northwestern region. The opening expands upon the nonprofit hospice’s existing bereavement services, according to Regional Hospice President and CEO Cynthia Emiry Roy. “We

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2023

NYSE: MET) is collaborating with Empathy to offer the bereavement care technology company’s platform to the insurance giant’s employees and beneficiaries. Bereavement care tech startup Empathy launched in 2021 with an app designed to help reduce the burden on grieving families and provide additional layers of emotional support.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Weighing the staffing, patient needs The new pediatric center will include features such as a sensory therapeutic playroom, a family gathering and events area, a child life specialist center and creative arts room, a music therapy room, a bereavement counseling space, a chapel, meeting rooms and a family office center.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2023

Technology firms Empathy and Sharecare (NASDAQ: SHCR) have partnered to expand the benefits that companies can offer to bereaved employees. Through this partnership, employees will be able to access Empathy’s bereavement support services through ShareCare’s home home-oriented product, CareLinx.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

All hospices provide some form of bereavement care after a patient dies, but many families need help with anticipatory grief as well. What is anticipatory grief? It’s the feelings of loss, grief and anxiety that happened before death when you know there’s a death coming.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Chapters’ four new affiliates offer a range of services, including hospice, palliative care, supportive services, pediatrics, bereavement care and residential care, among others. The MSO program is oriented around hospices, whereas CareNu is designed for those who provide upstream services. It’s a pretty diverse portfolio.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Providing more bereavement services to staff has become an invaluable piece of retention at Butte Home Health & Hospice, with this support becoming a permanent part of its program, according to Love. We are encouraging these applicants to obtain experience in relevant settings and then re-visit hospice.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The bereavement care tech platform Empathy is now partnering with the software company Benekiva in an effort to streamline life insurance claims processing and help families access benefits more quickly. The average cost to the bereaved exceeds $12,000.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Engaging students in conversations about death, dying and bereavement is an important component of normalizing these topics throughout their lifetime. Grief education is an additional huge part of the hospice program, she said.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Finding the right balance of support and career development for bereavement care professionals is key to recruitment and retention as hospices combat labor strains. The weight of providing bereavement care can take a heavy toll on staff and impact turnover rates, according to Jennifer Kincaid, chief people officer at Hospice of the Piedmont.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

More than 70% of respondents to a survey by the bereavement care tech platIform Empathy reported at least one mental health symptom for a few weeks after the death of a loved one; 58% indicated that the symptoms lasted for several months. Symptoms included depression and anxiety, among others. Estimates suggest that U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Greater education and preparation around the logistical aspects of death and bereavement is needed to better support grieving families. One of the greatest challenges facing bereaved families when a loved one dies is the lack of a will or other estate planning tool (for example, living trust),” Marylander told Hospice News in an email.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

MARCH 10, 2025

Our bereavement support team provides critical emotional and psychological assistance to families, caregivers, and loved ones, ensuring they are not alone in The post Beyond the Bedside: The Unseen Impact of Hospice Bereavement Care appeared first on AT Home Care & Hospice.

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Hospice News

JULY 9, 2024

North Carolina-based Hospice of Davidson County (HODC) will soon unveil a summer grief camp for bereaved children and teens. Addressing the unmet bereavement needs of children and their families was a main priority for rolling out the grief camp, according to Cole Warner, director of support services at HODC.

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Hospice News

JUNE 24, 2022

A proliferating number of startups is developing tech solutions and services to support bereaved families, employing a range of business models — including partnerships with hospices. There’s never going to be enough hospice bereavement coordinators to make sure every single person gets what they need.

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Adobe Hospice & Home Health

MARCH 10, 2025

Our bereavement support team provides critical emotional and psychological assistance to families, caregivers, and loved ones, ensuring they are not alone in The post Beyond the Bedside: The Unseen Impact of Hospice Bereavement Care appeared first on Abode Hospice & Home Health.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2025

The center will also provide family-centered care such as spiritual, psychosocial and emotional support, assistance with advance care planning and bereavement care. Services available at Masons Light House will include care coordination and family navigation, pain and symptom management, respite and physical or occupational therapies.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In addition to hospice, Anthony House also offers grief services as part of its Supportive Care Ministries program for bereaved individuals. The nonprofit was named in memory of Anthony Spinella Sr.

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

Our services will include the standard hospice functions such as individual bereavement care and volunteer-based therapy, but we also have grief support groups. We’re using that acronym to guide how we approach the scope of care that we’ll be providing.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The bereavement care tech company Betterleave has secured $2.4 Austin-based Betterleave Bereavement launched as a venture capital-backed startup in March 2022. The company’s bereavement care platform is designed as a benefit that companies can offer their employees who have lost a loved one, a pregnancy or a pet.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The organizations announced their intent to affiliate last October, with leadership citing a shared goal to provide sustainable hospice, palliative care and bereavement services to communities across their combined geographic Florida footprint. The nonprofit provides hospice, palliative care and bereavement services.

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Hospice News

JULY 12, 2022

Tech startup Autumn has developed a death care digital marketplace to connect bereaved families with services. Autumn is the latest entrant to a cottage industry that is springing up around end-of-life and bereavement care. The company launches today following a $600,000 pre-seed funding round led by the investment firm Bullish Inc.

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Hospice News

MARCH 3, 2025

The hospice provider offers a dementia program, sleep assistance services, durable medical equipment and bereavement care, among other services. Bristol is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Webster Equity Partners.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2025

VITAS will also offer veteran services, respiratory therapy and bereavement care, among other services that address their physical, spiritual and psychosocial needs. In addition to hospice care, the organization also offers bereavement support and a veterans program. Fremont Home Health and Hospice Weighs Closure John C.

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Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2024

Common threads among children grief programs Youth summer grief camps often integrate bereavement counseling and therapeutic elements into their programs. The Michigan-based hospice provider launched its summer grief program three years ago for bereaved children 5–18 years old across communities in its service region.

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Hospice News

MARCH 21, 2025

Croix offers advance care planning support, bereavement services and a North Star program for dementia symptom management. Croix Hospice has widened its geographic footprint across 10 Midwestern states. The hospice provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm H.I.G. In addition to hospice, St.

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

DayNew, a new tech platform launching today, aims to help individuals and families navigate the aftermath of a catastrophic loss, including bereavement. Through the app, the traumatized or bereaved receive a customized set of resources and services designed to help guide them through healing and grief, according to DayNew.

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